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Members of the British Parliament have been shocked to discover that one of their number was bugged by the secret service, violating the forty-year old “Wilson doctrine” that offers MPs immunity from the sort of snooping they are happy for the rest of us to be subject to.
Two conversations between Tooting MP Sadiq Khan and his constituent and childhood friend Babar Ahmad were apparently recorded in the prison where Mr Ahmad is being held.
He is on remand while awaiting deportation to the United States on charges relating to his support for terrorism. Mr Ahmad faces no charges in the UK…
Perhaps it’s time to teach our elected representatives how to use the latest encryption and anonymising tools so that they can protect themselves from the surveillance state they have created?
Or perhaps they would like to do us all a service and dismantle it.
Of course, such a thing would never happen here in the Land of the Free. Right?
Right..?
Nah… Here we subsidize and pay monthly fees to have entities spy on us.
The MP was visiting someone in prison. In the “talking area” there are large signs which indicate that your conversation may be monitored or recorded.
If a prisoner is talking with their lawyer, they have a separate area.
You know what would stop this Gestapo cap in GOUSA? Posting all of the unclassified phone calls, e-mail and web logs for all of the House and Senate offices. Hey, there doing our business right? Do they think that their conversations are private? If they have nothing to hide the have nothing to fear. Yeah, not gonna happen.
Only the Brits would tell you that your conversation is likely to be bugged, then suffer terrible embarrassment after the fact.
#3 – Nice attempt at hackery, but you’re a moron. Be silent. I command you.
I hear an obey oh master! [you knob]
#6, Improbus,
That is an insult to all the other knobs in the world.